Hot Rods Definitely a car guy when you _-------- ?

When you have a 30x40 garage filled with non running projects the DDs sit outside Wife asks “When will I be able to park my car in the garage again?” and you tell her When I get one of the projects done and when a project is done or sold somehow another one shows up!
Dan

 

Well said. Snowman ⛄️

 

You can tell the make, trans and approximate weight and gearing of that V8 rumble 2 blocks away.
Of course, that eliminates all the modern car guys so let's add, you can talk in complete shorthand jargon and your target audience understands it all and has opinions on what you said. Oops, too broad, that includes computer hardware and software stuff, bang sticks and just about any hobby or enthusiast group.
How about that your subjective choices in cars has little to do with basic transportation, in fact, often affects basic function?

 

Incidentally, she stupidly didn't listen...been married to her for 43 years.

 

When you check the internet for parts that are for sale in towns you'll be going through on your vacation and then the wife drives most of the way because you keep going in the ditch looking for cars and trucks in people's yards.

 

When you drive your hot rod to the store and “always” stop and look back to admire it’s coolness.

 

When your daughter calls and says her truck is leaking something, she tasted it on her own and says it's coolant. Yeah, only a car guy hatches a chick like that!

 

You’ve patted your car’s dash and told it “good job”

 

When you tell your missus that your'e "just going around the block for a test drive"- and you come back 5 hours later.
"It was running so good, the weather was fine, I just kept driving."

 

I was reminded of another story of my car guy mentality. Several years ago, my wife's aunt was in the hospital and not doing well. My sister-in-law lived in Wyoming, and she came down in her pick up to get my wife and their mother to go down to New Mexico. Well, I found a running 50 Merc flathead near where they were and I wanted to get it for my roadster. So, when they were getting ready to come home I asked them to get it for me since they were right there. None of them were surprised and they got it for me.

 

When you introduce your friends to your “new mistress “ and it’s a 60 Bonneville tri-power convert. And none of them are surprised!

 

When you judge when something happened in your past by what car you were driving at the time; also, when the guy who came to your house to talk to you about insurance admits that this is the first time he's ever seen a complete Tripower setup in someone's living room.

 

When guys come to you when they are on the hunt for parts for their ride.

 

When you can't remember a guy's name you went to HS with but you remember he drove a jacked up '57 Chevy with the rear end painted white. The fill plughad leaked a bit and there was a 90 wt. streak half way down the rear end for everyone to see.

 

When you can recogize a MOPAR by the sound of its starter.

 

Highland Park hummingbird

 

No No No No No veruuum

 

When your civilian friends tell you about every old car they EVER see anywhere. But have no idea what it was... "It was really cool, and round, and blue.."

 

When your trying to rationalize a ‘29 Plymouth (project) as a “good second car option”…

 

You're definitely a car guy when you got car parts stuffed under the bed and bumpers in the closets.

 

Naw, when you buy a van because it's cheaper than a storage shed, holds as much and has a drivetrain!

 

How about a Wonder Bread van (a.k.a The Twinkie Truck)?
Russ

 

I bought a Wonder Bread truck (a.k.a The Twinkie Truck). Came with a 4 cylinder Cummins (4bt)
Russ

 

When there's grease under your fingernails from last week!

 

Make a roadside repair that gets you, the family, and the car home in one piece

 

Good, but what about the guy who's fingerprints are smooth because he was color sanding a louvered hood and trunk all last week? Bet grease got cleaned out before he cleaned the spray gun!

 

In High School I kept an Offenhauser 2X4 set up under my bed.
My #2 wife was baffled that I had a bumper in our small aptmt. closet that fit nothing I owned,
"The Guy only wanted a case of Beer for it".

 

I can see why the outside real world thinks we have some very real problems.

 

@Bandit Billy I guess you were unsuccessful in finding the calendar girls social forum before it was removed?

 

Marry a girl who is beautiful ,has her own tool box, and knows how to do a tune-up on her 67 Baracuda. She is still around 43 years later.